Online Fortune Telling: Your Son Has Another Dad

Chapter 596 - 594: Old Xu’s Marriage

"The blind dates my elders introduced to me, their family background and status were more or less on the same level as mine."

"I guess this is what people mean by being well-matched in social status!"

"But among them, a lot were just like my first ex-wife, pure tools for family-arranged marriages, pushed out by their families. Apart from eating, drinking, and having fun, they couldn’t do anything."

"For women like that, I really don’t have the slightest interest. After meeting once, we basically never contacted each other again."

"Until I met my second wife..."

When he mentioned this "second wife," a faint smile appeared at the corner of Xu Jie’s mouth.

He seemed to recall something particularly amusing, and continued slowly, "My second wife, like me, was a workaholic."

"Before, whenever I went on blind dates, I was usually the one watching the clock and arriving on time."

"But on that blind date, I was actually the first one there; she showed up later than me."

"When she appeared in front of me, I was really surprised, because she was the boss of the company across from mine."

"We’d worked together before and met a few times, and our impression of each other was quite good."

"Her reaction was pretty much the same as mine—she was also very surprised to see me sitting opposite her."

"Then we started talking about our respective companies, and the more we talked, the more we clicked."

"It was the first time I’d ever met a woman who could share common topics with me."

"So we got along really well."

"About three months later, we went and registered our marriage, and I stepped into the grave of marriage for the second time..."

As he spoke, another helpless bitter smile crept onto Xu Jie’s face.

The viewers saw this and couldn’t help cracking jokes again.

"I’m guessing this second marriage definitely ended in divorce too!"

"No kidding, otherwise why would Old Xu say he stepped into the grave of marriage a second time?"

"The first wife, he dumped because they had nothing in common. The second one, they finally have stuff to talk about, so why’d they still divorce?"

"Who knows, let Old Xu keep telling it!"

"I figure they probably didn’t have kids, otherwise Old Xu wouldn’t be in the livestream begging the Taoist to read his fortune about children."

"Old Xu, Old Xu, you finally found someone you could really talk to. Did you really get divorced just because you didn’t have kids?"

"Yeah, are kids really that important? If not, just take me in as your godson instead!"

"Brother Xu, I have a shameless request... after you divorced your second wife, did you keep her contact info?"

"What, you trying to latch onto a rich woman or what?"

"Ahem... I just want to take a few fewer detours and lie flat ahead of schedule!"

"Step aside, all of you, let me! My teeth are bad, I’m born to eat soft rice!"

"Aren’t you guys jumping the gun here? Old Xu hasn’t even said why they divorced yet."

"What if Old Xu’s second wife has some special kink? Like being into steel wool scrubbers or something."

"Brother Xu, hurry up and tell us, why did you divorce this time?"

"Yeah yeah yeah, I gotta vet my future wife, see if she has any special kinks."

"You guys really aren’t afraid of steel wool, huh!"

"Brothers, do you know the flower language of a steel wool scrubber? It stands for endurance and prosperity!"

"Dude, that’s way too ridiculous, don’t you think?"

"Don’t be so absurd!"

Looking at the barrage flying across the screen, Xu Jie smiled and shook his head.

"Sigh!"

He let out a light sigh, then said with regret on his face, "My second wife didn’t have any of those special kinks you guys are imagining."

"To be honest, I really put a lot into this second marriage."

"I really liked my second wife, because she was a rare woman who could talk to me on the same wavelength."

"But this marriage still ended in divorce all the same."

"You’re all probably very curious. Our family backgrounds were similar, and we had common topics, so why did we end up divorced?"

Xu Jie paused and didn’t go on right away.

Instead, just like earlier, he picked up his glass and took a sip of water.

After a moment of silence, he continued, "The reason we got divorced mainly comes down to two points."

"The first one, and the most important, is the issue of children."

"Like I mentioned before, I’ve always been someone who really likes kids."

"After we got married, I wanted to put having children on the agenda."

"But at first, she just brushed me off, saying the company’s business was too busy and she hoped to delay it for a year before having kids."

"I totally understood; after all, her company was in a growth phase."

"If she could seize the timing and grab the opportunity, her company’s performance was going to explode to the next level."

"But after a year passed, when I asked again about the plan to have kids, she told me she wanted to delay another half year."

"At the time I did feel a bit cheated, but I still tried to be understanding and agreed to the delay."

"Then after that half year, she told me again that she didn’t want to have a child for now..."

Xu Jie shook his head and couldn’t help letting out another long sigh.

He lifted his head slightly, rubbing his chin, and said in a low voice, "After she kept brushing me off like that again and again, I finally realized she actually didn’t want kids at all."

"So I sat her down to have an open, honest talk about our future plans."

"And that was when she came clean with me. Back in college, she’d gotten pregnant before marriage and had a child."

"She didn’t dare tell her family at the time, because with her family background, there was no way they’d accept the fact that she’d had a kid out of wedlock."

"If her elders had found out, they definitely would’ve forced her to get an abortion and get rid of the baby."

"But she didn’t want that, because back then she was head over heels for her college first love and swore she’d bear him a child."

"The child was indeed born safely, but due to some medical issues, she was left unable to get pregnant again for the rest of her life."

"Her original plan was that after graduating from college, she and her first love would elope together, break away from the family, and go to another city to build a life from scratch."

"But with the arrival of the baby, conflicts between the young couple just kept growing."

"Before they even graduated, cracks had already started to show in their relationship."

"She told me she’d been really naive back then, that she truly believed in so‑called love."

"But before they graduated, her first love told her a terrifying truth!"

"He didn’t actually like her that much. So why did he get together with her? Because he knew about her family background and status."

"That first love basically had the same mindset as some of you in the chat—wanted to take fewer detours in life, and was even ready to marry into her family."

"But she wanted to take him and the kid and go to another city after graduation to start from zero."

"There was a shortcut and she didn’t want it, insisted on taking the long way around—that was something her first love just couldn’t accept."

"So before they graduated, the couple broke up, and the child went to the father’s side..."